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A comment on Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US ... by eli_gottlieb on Friday January 06, 2017 @10:20PM (#13342218)
Go ahead and contact me personally. We need to do something about this, and if algorithms can, algorithms must.
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Re:Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US ... by eternalban on Saturday January 07, 2017 @12:08AM (#13342473)
Train it on this - a great resource: http://www.gdeltproject.org/

I remain skeptical that merely flagging individual content as 'probable disminformation' will the address issue.

Propaganda is, at its core, a form of psychological manipulation. It doesn't necessarily have to involve overt lies. Omission of facts, tone, phrasing and choice of words, etc. are all effective tools.

There are patterns to propaganda. /That/ is their achilles heel.

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